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movies by or about women opening US/Can Mar 13

Sun, Mar 15, 2020
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Betty Gilpin costars in The Hunt; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Mar 11–13

Sun, Mar 15, 2020
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Philippa Lowthorpe directs and Rebecca Frayn and Gaby Chiappe write Misbehaviour, starring Jessie Buckley and Keira Knightley; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Feb 25-Mar 01

Sat, Mar 02, 2019
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Charlotte Rampling stars in drama Hannah; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Nov 16

Fri, Nov 16, 2018
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Nijla Mu’min writes and directs teen drama Jinn; Angela Shelton writes and directs boxing drama Heart, Baby!; more…

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What They Had movie review: family ties and lies

Sun, Oct 28, 2018
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Simultaneously sharp and tender portrait of longstanding family squabbles and resentments finally coming to a head. Achingly affecting performances and poignant details ground it in melancholy authenticity.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Oct 17

Fri, Oct 19, 2018
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Elizabeth Chomko directs family drama What They Had; Marielle Heller directs literary-forging dramedy Can You Ever Forgive Me?; plus a whole bunch of documentaries directed by women…

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Logan Lucky movie review: a waste of a heist

Fri, Aug 25, 2017
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Fun enough and diverting enough while you’re in the middle of it, but hints of something much richer and more satisfying dangle just out of its reach.

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#LFF2016: A Date for Mad Mary, Chasing Asylum, The Dreamed Ones

Tue, Sep 20, 2016
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Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.

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Jeff Robinov, who decreed that Warner Bros wouldn’t make movies with female leads, wants to not make women-led films elsewhere, probably

Wed, Jun 26, 2013
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Not that this won’t be a mark in his favor with the other studios.

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must reads: “‘New Year’s Eve’: 10 Things That Could Never Happen as They Happened”

Wed, Dec 14, 2011
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Lest today’s QOTD be misinterpreted as any sort of defense of New Year’s Eve, I invite you to join me in guffawing along with Mandi Bierly at PopWatch at the movie’s ridiculous mala-Big Apple-isms…

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